Meetings & Conferences News

Monday, April 23, 2012

Blog: A Lowell love letter
For our April 2012 event (and our third anniversary) we took Mass Innovation Nights (MIN) on the road north of Boston to Lowell.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Blog: To stay in the game you have to go global
There were people from Turkey, Israel, Brazil and other nations who congregated at the Brandeis International Business School in Waltham to hear what tech execs and Gov. Deval Patrick had to say about going global.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Blog: The revolution will be invite-only
MHT News Editor Rodney Brown blogs: An article today in an online offshoot of Fast Company states that Richard Saul Wurman "reinvented the standard business conference model" when he created the TED Conference in 1984. Not only is this incorrect hyperbole, it is an example of the worst kind of toadyism that is rampant in the specific part of the tech world focused on design.

Friday, August 5, 2011

Boston to host 2012 AdvaMed medical technology event
AdvaMed, a medical technology event regularly held in Washington D.C. since 2007, is branching out in 2012 to Boston – the first city outside of the nation’s capitol to host the event.

Friday, July 29, 2011

Blog: What, no WiFi at a conference?
Advisor Paul Gillin: Thanks to WiFi, tablets and smart phones, people can go to meetings and immerse themselves in e-mail, Facebook and whatever else strikes their online fancy. Conference organizers and speakers hate this, but how far should they be permitted to go to stop it?

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

How To Toolbox: How to choose a meeting venue
Event season in New England's high-tech industry will be warming up just after Labor Day. Consider these factors in finding a meeting space for your own event: purpose, size, availability, location and cost.

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Massachusetts aims to host largest biotech convention in 2012
The venue for this year’s annual Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) convention, ending today, may have been the nation's capital, but the Massachusetts delegation to the show, anchored by Governor Deval Patrick and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, loudly drummed its "Road to Revolution" theme to attract attendees to next year's show in Boston, to be held June 18-21, 2012.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Blog: Startups thirsty for connections at RubyRiot
MHT Reporter Galen Moore blogs: Matt Lauzon has a little problem. RubyRiot – the startup industry event he started – has grown to an overflow capacity of about 700 partygoers. It looks like when RubyRiot kicks off tonight at 7 p.m., the Boston startup scene will have its first club scene, with a line outside the door and all.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Tread with care on Boston expo center plans
MHT Editor James Connolly: In recent weeks there has been talk about almost doubling the space at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center and building a 1,000-room hotel — all at a total cost of $2 billion. While the national convention business has shown signs of life, it remains highly susceptible to economic downturns. Big events remain at risk.
Trade Show Internet sees growth in low-cost show floor Internet access
When Trade Show Internet was founded in 2009, its business model of offering a rental package of hardware and service for Internet access at trade shows had people falling either on the side of smart idea whose time has come, or a product without a market demand. Now, just two years later, the company is flirting with profitability and has enterprise customers knocking on the door.
Tech professionals consider gimmicks in landing intro meetings
It's a real challenge for cash-strapped entrepreneurs to get the attention — and interest — of investors overwhelmed with inquiries and business plans from legions of other like-minded startups. What's a harried tech professional to do? Get creative.
Mass. state agencies, local companies shoot to make a splash at BIO show
Massachusetts state officials, industry groups, life sciences companies and educational institutions will have a dual purpose when they go to the BIO International Convention in Washington, D.C., in June. They will be promoting the 2012 version of BIO, which will be returning to Boston, where the show drew 23,000 attendees in 2007.
MIT Energy Conference showcases select few energy-related companies
Getting into MIT is hard enough, but for energy startups, getting into the MIT Energy Conference showcase is no easy task either. Always well attended — and by the right types of people — the showcase is a prime chance for New England energy startups to make a number of key connections in a short time.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Tech Watch: PAX sees growth in move to new Boston event space
New England nerds should know that Robert Khoo, president of Penny Arcade Inc. and show director for PAX East, says that in just its second year, the upcoming PAX East 2011 will be bigger than the main PAX show in Seattle. To handle the expected larger size this year, Khoo and the team tripled the exhibit hall space.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

The List: New England's top tech meeting spaces
A one-two punch from the economy and the growing popularity of nontraditional meeting spaces has sent the number of tech events held at hotels in a downward trajectory, according to Joseph Rogan, founder of Hotel-Inntell.com LLC. Take a look at New England's top tech meeting spaces, still all of them hotels.

Friday, October 29, 2010

Tech community celebrates MHT 2010 All-Stars
Mass High Tech honored 16 All-Stars in last night’s 15th annual All-Star awards, and the common theme among the short speeches by the honorees was the pressing need to boost innovation and education in the Bay State. As Distinguished Achievement Award honoree Bernard Gordon said, “there really is a dearth of engineering leaders.”

Friday, October 15, 2010

Innovation unConference draws New England tech players
The Mass Technology Leadership Council’s third annual Innovation unConference drew about 600 people to the South Boston Waterfront Thursday, for a day of networking and ad hoc sessions on topics from robotics in Massachusetts to the high-tech economy in Australia.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Some tech events fall outside BREWBoston, FutureM fold
While October is tech events month in New England, not all events fall under the auspices of last week’s FutureM or this week’s BREWBoston. Yet those uncategorized events still need some geek love and attention.

Monday, October 11, 2010

Ferrari takes MassTLC Unconference for an outside-the-box spin
The MassTLC Innovation unConference is growing this year – about 50 percent bigger than last year. Some of the sessions this Thursday are going to be tough to get into – like the one that’s taking place inside a Ferrari coupe.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Baydin to pitch email cleanup game to VCs
Tonight at Microsoft's NERD center in Cambridge, Alex Moore will pitch his company Baydin Inc., which focuses on making email inbox cleanup fun, to Matrix Partners general partner Antonio Rodriguez.